Patient Hand Offs: Making the Hospital to Home Care Transition

Source: Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety, Volume 8, Number 1, January 2008 , pp. 1-7(7)

Publisher: Joint Commission Resources

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Abstract:

More than 57,000 avoidable deaths occur each year due to quality gaps that prevent millions of Americans from receiving best practice care. Many of these errors are a result of poor communication during patient hand off. In the health care setting, hand offs include nursing shift changes, temporary relief or coverage, nursing and physician hand offs from one department to another, and transfers to different hospitals, nursing homes, and home care or community health care. Home health care is the health care industry component that is best positioned to bridge communication gaps between hospital and home, especially for high-risk patient groups such as older adults coping with multiple health problems.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2008-01-01

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The Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety gives readers how to information on analyzing and preventing errors in patient care. While this newsletter emphasizes prevention (a proactive approach), it also addresses the real-world issues of reacting to adverse events.
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